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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s.
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate!
Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more who’ve faded into obscurity.
Also included are recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate!
Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more who’ve faded into obscurity.
Also included are recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.
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“This book is required reading if you've ever been a fan of horror fiction. Especially if your unfamiliar with the genre back in the 70's/80's. It explains how we got to the point were at today. All of these authors had to crawl so that current authors could walk. Grady goes into deep description of all the macabre subgenres. The book itself is beautiful because its plagued with those filthy morbid disgusting covers of old school horror literature. I checked this book out from my local library and before I was halfway through it I had to purchase my own copy. I thought I had a great understanding of the history and knowledge of horror fiction but I expanded my knowledge of the genre by at least double it was before. Ever since I have been collecting them. It's gonna be hard to obtain them all because of the cost and it will only increase the longer I wait since a lot of the less popular novels are out of print. Thankfully valencourt is re-releasing previous out of print works in brand new updated paperbacks. I cant recommend this book enough because I got to learn so much about the genre I love the most. Thank you grady hendrix.”
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“I love history and i love horror and this is the best of both”
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About Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group. Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award–winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell and These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World.
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